Making Waves

This episode of Making Waves features a livestream performance from October 25 2020 by Debashis Sinha called Adeva (version000_01), which was co-presented by New Adventures in Sound Art and Charles Street Video.

In this episode on AI and Modular Synths, we explore techniques - both new and old - used to produce sounds and images for two livestream performances taking place on October 17 and 24, 2020. In the first half Darren Copeland interviews Debashis Sinha, a Bengali Canadian composer and media artist about applying Artificial Intelligence to Veda scriptures to produce the sounds and images in his performance. In the second half, David Breckenridge interviews filmmaker and musician Robert Fantinatto, the creator of I Dream of Wires, a documentary film on the modular synth renaissance. In the interview Fantinatto relates his own journey with modular synths and more recently his interest in a digital variation on the technique of liquid light that he has developed with his son Aidan Fantinatto.

On today’s edition of Making Waves we feature interviews with Bentley Jarvis and Teresa Connors. David Arthur met up online with Bentley Jarvis over rural internet connections to discuss Jarvis’ sound sculpture Constant Plancks which has been on exhibit outdoors at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River, Canada. The sculpture consists of two tall cedar structures with built-in loudspeakers that respond to passing traffic with music based on the mathematical concept of Planks Constant. In the second half Darren Copeland interviews Teresa Connors about her approach to gathering data from the east coast of Newfoundland and using it to transform images and sounds in a series of audio-visual non-linear works. One of those is called From the Edge, which will open on September 24th during the SOUNDplay festival at NAISA.

As part of World Listening Day on July 18 NAISA hosted three online meet ups where participants produced soundscape recordings in their home environments inspired by a text score by composer Tina Pearson called Towards a Reciprocal Listening. Through this edition of Making Waves we will share the soundscapes collected by the participants along side their commentary reflecting on their experiences at the location and personal responses to the text score.The soundscapes heard in the program can be explored on Radio Aporee.

New Adventures in Sound Art is releasing a compilation on soundcloud for its Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art. Guest Host David Arthur explores a selection of the pieces on the release and offers his responses and perspectives. Included are pieces by Léa Boudreau, Matheos and Georgios, Christopher Lock, Barry Truax and Juan Carlos Vasquez.

A discussion about listening and recording with Matthew Rogalsky in reference to his installation “Octet" which will open at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre on June 25. At the end of the show we will re-visit NAISA’s May 30 performance with two works by David Eagle - "Through Autumn Mist" and “Tactus" (with Jordan Wyshniowsky, Cello).

In this episode of Making Waves NAISA’s Darren Copeland talks to Grant Smith, Maria Papadomanolaki and Dawn Scarfe. For the past six years they have been celebrating International Dawn Chorus Day in a truly unique way. As the collective Soundcamp they produce Reveil, which is a world-wide radio program that follows the sounds of daybreak from timezone to timezone through an open and parallel network of audio livestreams provided by volunteer streamers, field recordists and science researchers. Each hour produces a new awakening of sounds from a different part of the world. Reveil will be heard on Wave Farm Radio between midnight of May 2 to 1 am of May 3. Participation is open to all. To broadcast the sounds of daybreak from your home join them and NAISA for one of three Meetups in the weeks leading up to the broadcast - https://naisa.ca/education/workshops.

Impressions of Place: Ayesha Barmania, Don Hill and Jeffrey Sinibaldi. NAISA invited Podcaster Ayesha Barmania from Peterborough Ontario to create a radio portrait of NAISA's home town of South River (and vicinity) using interviews collected by NAISA over the past 3 years with residents from the local community. The piece she made was called A Good Ways North. Also on the show is WRGO or What is Really Going On by Edmonton radio artist Don Hill and Disconnect by Niagara sound artist Jeffrey Sinibaldi.